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A Source For The Graph, Ctd
ByLooks like it was made by Tehran Bureau, which has lots of other election coverage. Their analysis:
Statistically and mathematically, it is impossible to maintain such
perfect linear relations between the votes of any two candidates in any
election and at all stages of vote counting. This is particularly
true about Iran, a large country with a variety of ethnic groups who
usually vote for a candidate who is ethnically one of their own. For
example, in the present elections, Mr. Mousavi is an Azeri and speaks
Turkish. The Azeries make up 1/4 of all the eligible voters in Iran and
in his trips to Azerbaijan province, where most of the Azeri population
lives, Mr. Mousavi had been greeted by huge rallies in support of his
campaign. Likewise, Mr. Karroubi, the other reformist candidate, is a
Lor. But according to the data released by Iran’s Interior Ministry, in
both cases, Mr. Ahmadinejad has far outdone both candidates in their
own provinces of birth and among their own ethnic populations.
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